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Information for employers, trainee and qualified Teachers

Helpful links and contacts to services for trainee teachers, teachers with QTS qualifications, ECT induction appeals and employers checking a teachers record.

Information and contacts for employers

Check a teacher鈥檚 record

Use this service to check a teacher鈥檚 record before they start working for your school, college, teacher supply agency, or other organisation.

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TRA Prohibition checks

If you are unable to use聽Check a teacher鈥檚 record - 188体育聽to check whether a teacher is subject to a prohibition or another sanction please contact us.

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Information and contacts for trainee and qualified teachers

Access your teaching qualifications

This service lets you download your teaching certificates and change the name on them. You can also check the details of your initial teacher training and induction.

Access your teaching qualifications

Qualified Teacher Status (QTS): qualify to teach in England

Find out how to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) to teach in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England.

Qualified teacher status (QTS): qualify to teach in England

Find a lost Teacher Reference Number (TRN)

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Early Career Teacher (ECT) induction appeals

How to appeal a newly qualified teacher induction decision. Also includes how to attend an induction appeal hearing as an observer.

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Qualified Teacher Status

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Support for trainee teachers and teachers accessing their teaching qualifications.

Early Career Teacher (ECT) induction

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Information for ECTs and appropriate bodies regarding the statutory ECT induction period and data returns to TRA. Our helpdesk no longer provides support by phone but you can contact us by email instead.

Updates to this page

Published 31 March 2025